Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (5 February 1897-29 June 1945) was a German nationalist who assassinated Bavarian premier Kurt Eisner in 1919.

Biography
Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was born on 5 February 1897 in Sankt Martin im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary to a Catholic businessman father and a wealthy Jewish mother from a family of wealthy bankers. Arco auf Valley served in the Imperial German Army during World War I, and he became one of the many disgruntled veterans who joined the nationalist cause after the Treaty of Versailles. Despite his mother's Jewish descent, Arco auf Valley agreed with anti-Semitism, and he murdered Bavarian premier Kurt Eisner in 1919 while he was studying at Munich University. In January 1920, he was arrested and sentenced to death, but his sentence was later commuted to five years in prison. He was pardoned in 1927, and he became a monarchist activist after the 1910s. He died in a traffic accident in Salzburg, Austria on 29 June 1945.